Posted on 04/30/2016 7:34:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When retail giant Target announced their new policy of allowing anyone to use whichever bathroom they wish in their stores it was completely predictable that a firestorm was going to follow… and boy howdy, has it ever. While the SJW crowd cheered the decision, realists around the country signaled their collective displeasure with a boycott of the store spearheaded by The American Family Association. In a relatively short time, more than one million people had signed on to the protest. (Fox News)
More than one million people have decided they will no longer buy their Nutter Butters or Wet Wipes at Target.
The American Family Association launched a boycott of the nation’s second largest retailer a week ago – over Target’s corporate policy allowing men who identify as women to use the bathrooms and fitting rooms of their choosing.
“We believe that everyone – every team member, every guest, and every community – deserves to be protected from discrimination, and treated equally,” the company wrote in a statement. “Consistent with this belief, Target supports the federal Equality Act, which provides protections to LGBT individuals, and opposes action that enables discrimination.”
Is the boycott having any sort of effect in such a short period of time? These things are often hard to gauge, but in this case there seems to be a strong hint provided in the fact that the company’s stock has taken a precipitous drop during the same period. (Daily Caller)
On Friday, the shares of Target Corporation Common Stock (TGT) fell 2.52 percent in one day, according to recent reports. In addition since April 19th, the day they announced the new policy, the stock went from a share value of $84.14 to $79.27 per share. That’s a drop of 5.8 percent in 10 days.
The Family Policy institute says they estimate that to be a loss to the company of $2.5 billion dollars…
As previously reported, in addition to signing the “boycott pledge” the group is encouraging people to post on Target’s Facebook page that they are upset about the new policy.
While I’m not generally a fan of boycotts as a means of enacting political change, this one is understandable and, as I said above, predictable. I also find the focus of the protest message to be a bit off the mark as well, while understanding the concerns being raised. Opponents of this misguided policy at Target continue to stress the danger of sexual predators using the open bathroom access as an invitation to perpetrate assaults. While I suppose it’s possible, it also seems unlikely that a determined predator would allow a gender designation sign on a door stop them from pursuing their victims, and incidents of such attacks seem to be rare. These scenarios are less disconcerting than cases where women are forced to share locker rooms and showers with men, opening the door to creepy voyeurs breaking out their cell phone cameras and worse.
Running the debate immediately to these worst case scenarios overshadows the underlying argument to be made. What about the simple concept of propriety and privacy which any civilized person should accept? Women should not be forced to use the bathroom, change in a locker room or take a shower in front of a strange man. Is that really so difficult to understand or express in a public policy statement?
This isn’t the first time Target has dipped a toe into the troubled “gender identity” waters. Last summer we talked about the store’s new policy of “de-gendering” the toys and clothing aisles so as not to offend anyone. The sad part of all this is that this stupid, pointless battle (which was clearly going to affect the company’s sales no matter which way they went on it) was completely unnecessary. Just as with public, government facilities, there is a simple (if still costly) solution, assuming one believes that a solution is required. In fact San Francisco (of all places) hit on the idea very early in the national debate. If a company or public facility truly feels that they must jump into this entire “degendering” fiasco, then in addition to traditional facilities for each gender, simply add on a third, gender neutral bathroom or other facility. Then anyone going in can be informed that there is no gender requirement for occupancy and, likewise, the owner/management offers no guarantee as to the gender of the other patrons you may encounter in there. Alternately, when new facilities are constructed, put in multiple, single user facilities and just label them as “shower” or “bathroom” or “changing room.”
Problem solved. Then, if someone wants to insist that they must be allowed in public facilities with people of the opposite gender, their true agenda is exposed. (You will be made to not only care, but to participate.) This is an important aspect of the conversation which the SJW all to often succeeds in suppressing. We aren’t having a conversation here about discrimination or the suppression of anyone else’s rights. Dress however you wish. And for that matter, the vast majority of us aren’t going to care one way or the other what you call yourself despite the obvious denial of basic genetics and science on display. The real motivation of the SJW is to force such twisted claims on everyone else and mandate their participation even when it comes at the expense of the rights of the majority.
Even if its only 10 % loss on sales it will have a big impact enough to make a dent.
No need even for a bunch of college creeps to dance around in the aisles, like they do for BDS. This is grass roots.
As far as I go, Target is off my shopping list.
But the headline is highly deceptive.
While TGT traded down some on the day, it is still priced at nearly $80 a share. a share price that goes down a buck or two on a day’s trading... could be a sign of something yes, but it sure doesn’t constitute a crash or a disaster
.. the headline is essentially false, or at least highly misleading.
right around $80 a share...closing at $79.50 in fact.... is AT LEAST at a 10 year high range for the firm (I only have access to ten years data where I am at, but the share price was a mere fraction of that at the start of that period so clearly this is probably quite a bit MORE than a 10 year high)
(Hopefully, the company will stop letting grown men into the little girls’ rooms....how can parents even take their kids shopping anymore? This policy is not only CRAZY but it is going to cause a major drop in patronage for the company...big time!)
These people are mentally ill. They need help not special bathroom privileges. Let’s stop encouraging these people to think they are normal. They are NOT. They are sick.
WalMart -- which has refused to support or join Target's bathroom policy -- saw its stock fall by a nearly identical percentage over the past 5 days, while the overall market also fell.
PROOF below...Target is green, Walmart in red
Haha.
Yeah whatever, it’s our time and money. After JCP started publishing fag catalogs, never been there. Doesn’t matter about boycotts if they work or not, it’s still a missed sale.
They failed miserably in Canada, where I;m originally from. One Christmas they were building the signs and the next Christmas, it was OK but come January, they were bankrupt.
It doesn’t matter to me if the stock was falling or not, they’re not gonna get money from a number of people just like JCP and their fag homo catalogs or Macy’s with their anti Trump approach, it still hurts the bottom line.
They would know the same way the Dixie Chicks knew after they trashed president Bush while they were on tour in Europe.
They all but disappeared from the music scene as a result of their actions. They were a C&W group which of course made their popularity dependent on people from the South buying their music. Being so conservative, Southerners almost totally turned their backs on the group and many stations refused to play their music.
How would anyone know that anyone were boycotting the Dixie Chicks?
Aren’t they controlled by the family of Mark Dayton?
Oh they know. Was talking to someone who went into a Target last week that’s in a major close by city. She is usually oblivious about what’s going on and she said she realized that there were only TWO customers in the store, one of them being her. They only had two lines open and the cashier said it had been like that all week.
I guess we now know where all the JC Penney staff ended up.
Targets manegement made bad decisions and will pay dearly for them.
Sports Authority stopped selling guns. A bad move for a sporting goods company and the went bankrupt due to those poor choices.
Target may well deserve the same.
Buh bye.
I signed the Target boycott. I’ll fulfill that pledge. I signed on with AFA...that is leading at least one of the petitions. They have been effective in the past in getting results from their boycotts. Those results became evident over time.
So, the idea of a stock uptick or downtick in such a short amount of time strikes me as a misguided way to approach this. In fact, following market turns could actually be a way for Target to combat this by loudly heralding any market upswing.
However, a million petitioners represents far more people than just those who signed. The long term results of a huge number of buyers shunning Target is what will affect them.
I’ve been avoiding Target anyway for other issues. This just adds to my reasons for not shopping there.
I feels sorry for the hourly workers and shareholders. Need to fire the C levels and reverse course.
You are correct - a serious lack of understanding how the stock market works. Target didn’t lose any money in the stock price drop - they made their money on the stocks initial sale - after that sale the only people making or losing any money are the people who buy and sell or trade the stock. The only affect on Target is any negative publicity that would affect their sales and, by default, their profits. To hurt Target you must hurt their sales.
Yep - for me, Target was like K-Mart; only used for the items that Walmart didn't have. They never seem to have many shoppers in there and one must wonder how they survive. Of course, S. MS is different than the liberal bastions - perhaps they only have their stores here as a symbol rather than a profit generator....
Do you really have liberals you associate that are ok with men masturbating in the women’s room?
I didn’t think so.
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